U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday

Re:U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins... by throwaway742 on Sunday July 17, 2022 @04:09AM (#32125253)

Obviously war can benefit the state so it becomes a simple cost benefit analysis. Execution does seem to be irrational when you could instead force them into a lifetime of involuntary servitude.

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Re:U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins... by smallerfish on Sunday July 17, 2022 @05:36AM (#32125521)

Not arguing for it, but the scale of execution is insignificant in comparison to suicide.

Suicides in the US (where assisted suicide is illegal): 45,979 (with 1.2M attempts)

Executions in the US: 17

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Re:U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins... by swores on Sunday July 17, 2022 @05:44AM (#32125538)

I assume you're giving numbers from one specific year?

I'm not asking to imply you've cherry picked numbers, just that giving stats like that (number of actions for a country with no defined time period) is only telling half the story, and even though that half was enough to make your point I think the other half is worth including for the sake of curiosity :)

edit: yes seems to be 2020, search of that suicides number pointed to e.g. https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/

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